Bob Langrish Comes to Tennessee
By Brenda Wright
Editor/Owner of Hoofbeats Magazine

On June 6, 2010, I was invited to come to Magnolia Valley Equestrian Center, Eagleville, Tennessee with my stallion, Lethal Wolfe to meet Bob Langrish, the world renowned equine photographer. Rafael Valle, invited us there with his stallion, Ivory Pal and Milton Cranford was also there with his horse, Bo. Mr. Langrish likes to take his pictures with the horses running free so we chose a large paddock to let them run. We all gathered to watch each of the horse’s individual pictures being taken by Bob.

I was amazed as I watched him at work. Bob has a technique of growling like a bear. He often finds that this causes them to put up their ears. We all really enjoyed working with him and he has a wonderful sense of humor about him. We were also honored to have Conrad Noddin and his wife Alisa with us; owner of Malibu Video Productions who works with Nashville Newzine, your online newspaper/magazine.

As Bob was taking pictures of the horses, Conrad was filming him and producing a video to be called “Shooting the Master Shooter” (video can be seen here on the Equine Page). Bob comes to America seven, eight or nine times a year and he travels all over the world. Just since the first of this year, he has traveled over 85,000 miles world wide taking pictures of various breeds. On his website he has over 25,000 pictures of various breeds of horses. (www.boblangrish.co.uk)

After our photo shoot we were invited by Sam and Mary Tune, owners of the Magnolia Valley Estates, Eagleville, Tennessee, for a good old fashion summer cookout. They made us feel so welcome that we just did not want to leave. During the meal I was able to talk to Bob and ask some questions of how he got started in equestrian photography.

He stated that he became interested in the camera at the age of 14. As he grew older he followed in his father's footsteps and became a policeman. His father was a captain with the Metropolitan Police Department. At the age of 20, along with being a policeman, he started photographing motor racing. When he was 23 he had to decide whether to stay in the police force or venture out in the world of photography because the police force would not allow him to do both. Lucky to all of us, he then decided to take on his life’s dream. For fifteen years he went to various horse shows and took pictures. And after that he found what in life he enjoyed the most. When you pick up a horse calendar just think of him. He has supplied most all of the pictures for these calendars.

After 37 years of specialization in this field, he has built an equestrian photographic library of over 400,000 pictures covering all aspects of the horse. He has completely illustrated well over 100 books and has contributed to over 200 others. He is most famous for his stunning pictures of horses running free.

He has taken photographs at six Olympic Games and has flown 1.5 million miles in the last 14 years for calendar photography and adds 20,000 new images to his library annually. He works for top equestrian magazines in more than 20 countries around the world.

Bob Langrish lives in a 17th century Cotswold Tythe Barn conversion in England. His international business is based a few miles away in a 17th century stone building which was once the local courthouse, in a small village called Bisley, deep in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Bob is a totally self-taught photographer and uses digital photography for all of his work. He uses Canon EOS 1D MK 11 cameras and lenses from 16mm - 600mm.

Bob Langrish has established a firm reputation as one of the foremost international equestrian photographers in the world.

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